Regular biography
Jacopo Borga is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the MATH department. His research interests lie at the intersection of probability theory, combinatorics, and mathematical physics, focusing on random combinatorial structures and their continuous limits. Before joining MIT, he served as a Szegő Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. at the Institut für Mathematik of the Universität Zürich under the supervision of Valentin Féray and Mathilde Bouvel. He has been recognized for his contributions to probability with awards, including the Bruno de Finetti Award in 2023 and the Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award in 2022.
Scholar-generated biography
Jacopo Borga is a researcher at MIT specializing in Probability and Combinatorics. His work focuses on the analysis of random permutations and their limits, including permutons, meandric systems, and scaling limits. Borga explores connections between permutation patterns, Brownian motion, and quantum gravity, with an emphasis on local convergence and large deviation principles. His research also involves coalescent-walk processes, Baxter permutations, and the geometry of uniform meandric systems. Borga's contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of combinatorics, with a focus on understanding the structure and behavior of complex random objects.